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$233.00Vol.1 – Chord Construction & Beginning Harmony
This book shows you the beginning of notes, clefs, intervals, scales and guitar fretboard visualization.
• Fretboard vizualization
• Chord contructions
• Triad chords and inversions (over 60 shapes)
• Tetrad chords and inversions (over 180 shapes)
• Suspended chords & added tone chords (over 90 shapes)
• Extended chords & Altered chords (over 300 shapes)
• Chord Families and ModesApart from chords, you will learn the relationship between scales, chords and modes, which is extremely important to master before going onto the complex harmonic or melodic ideas. Although we don’t cover scales or improvisation in this book, we use the scales to show you the quantity of chords that we can have for each one of them thus understanding the chord families and their possibilities.
All of these subjects are organized in a very useful way showing many chord possibilities on each string and on each degree (all of them with their respective fretboard shape), which will give you many options to harmonize (or reharmonize) the songs you play, or even help you to create your own songs and harmonies.
Including Fretboards
Vol 1 – 299 Pages
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$278.00Vol.2 – Advanced Harmony
Since you know all those chord shapes you have learned in Tool Book Vol.1, it is time to learn new tricks. In the Tool Book Vol.2 you will find:
• II/V/I leading to all degrees (over 60 examples)
• Types of musical cadences, Modal interchange & Parallel modes (about 40 examples)
• II/V/I (maj) progressions (over 50 possibilities)
• II/V/I (min) progressions (over 50 possibilities)
• Turnaround progressions (over 80 possibilities)
• Blues Harmonies & Chord Voicings (about 24 choruses with fretboard shapes)
• Open String Chords: more than 1200 chord options• Quartal Harmony: How to visualize Quartal Chords and how to mix Quartal Chord Modes thus creating many creative and incredible Modal Block Chord ideas (more than 80 examples)
• Extended Major II/V/I Block Chord Ideas (20 amazing examples for major II/V/I progressions)
• Extended Minor II/V/I Block Chord Ideas (20 amazing examples for major II/V/I progressions)Including Fretboards
Vol 2 – 302 Pages
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$278.00Vol.3 – George Benson Right and Left Hand Techniques (Arpeggios, Scales and other Ideas) & The Secret of the Two Chords
• George Benson Right & Left Hand Techniques. (over 40 single line examples)
• Triad fingering & picking possibilities and their inversions (more than 100 approaches)
• Tetrad fingering & picking possibilities (about 60 approaches)
• Pentatonic Scales and Patterns, such as the Blues Scale (over 70 examples)
• Simple Major Blues chorus examples using melodic positioning: “Early Notes”, “On the Head” and “Late Notes” (48 chorus ideas)
• Simple Minor Blues chorus examples using melodic positioning: “Early Notes”, “On the Head” and “Late Notes” (48 chorus ideas)
• George Benson Blues lick studies (24 Major & Minor licks, more than 100 fingerings & pickings possibilities).
• Extended Blues Licks (30 amazing lines)
• Double Stop Licks (18 Licks) chosen by George and Peter.
• Natural Major Scale Application & Intervallic patterns (more than 35 examples)
• The Secret of the Two Chords: scale arpeggios concept (70 single line ideas always with indications showing you what type of material we have used in each part of the line, tabs, fingerings & picking notations)Includes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 3 – 331 Pages
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$278.00Vol.4 – Approach Tones & Dorian, Mixolydian and Harmonic Minor World
• Chromatic Approach (70 lines chosen by George and Peter with fingering, picking and indications where we used each one of these tools)
• Dorian scale with fingering and picking possibilities
• Dorian Patterns starting from the 3rd, 4th 5th and 6th strings
• Special Dorian Lines using many different tools chosen by George and Peter (140 single line ideas)
Although every guitar player knows what a Dorian scale is, it is important to mention that the idea of this book is not only to show you “what” but “how” to use the approaches & ideas.
• Dorian single lines applied over Altered chords
• Harmonic Minor scale and how to use it over songs.
• Harmonic Minor Scale Arpeggios
• Harmonic Minor Bebop Scale (140 single lines chosen by George and Peter, using many different tools such as: Harmonic Minor Scale Arpeggios, Natural Scale Arpeggios, common arpeggios, hidden arpeggios, diminished chords and augmented chord approach.
Includes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 4 – 352 Pages
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$278.00Vol.5 – Melodic Minor World, Bebop Scales & Symmetric Ideas and Concepts
• Melodic Minor scale all over the guitar neck (vertical and horizontal possibilities)
• Melodic Minor Scale Arpeggios
• Melodic Minor Simple Patterns
• Melodic Minor Lines (140 single line ideas chosen by George and Peter (with picking, fingering and analysis).
• The Nature of the Scales (20 line examples chosen by George and Peter)
• Bebop Scales approach
• Major Bebop Scales chords possibilities (20 Block chord ideas)
• Melodic Minor Bebop Scales chords possibilities (20 Block chord ideas)
• Special single line ideas using different Bebop scale approaches chosen by George and Peter (20 examples).
• Dominant Diminished approach
• Dominant Diminished chord voicings (58 possibilities)
• Dominant Diminished block chord ideas (16 possibilities)
• Dominant Diminished patterns (150 possibilities)
• Dominant Diminished single lines chosen by George and Peter (30 examples)
• Whole Tone Scale approach
• Whole Tone chord voicings (35 possibilities)
• Whole Tone block chord ideas (16 possibilities)
• Whole Tone patterns (100 possibilities)
• Whole Tone single lines chosen by George and Peter (30 examples)Includes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 5 – 413 pages
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$278.00Vol.6 – The Secret of the Giant Lines
In this book you will have access to the most incredible concepts and lines you will ever see. The Giant Lines are the key to understanding the world of George Benson, how he thinks and how he combines simple and complex subjects in a special, fun and much more musical way.
• Giant Line approach. All the Giant Lines presented were carefully created using combinations of many tools, and amazing GB ideas, which were chosen to improve your creativity and inspiration. You must have this book if you really want to go to the next step of improvisation.
• 40 Dominant 7th Giant Lines: D7(9) & D7(#9)
• 60 Minor 7th Giant Lines (30 static & 30 active)Each line contains tabs, fingering & picking and analysis of all the material used to create it. Once you have the analysis you can learn the presented lines but also you can create your own ideas using the same concepts. In other words, you can use this book with or without your instrument. Once you are without your instrument, you can use it just like reading a book, but instead of reading words you will be reading chord possibilities for each situation.
Includes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 6 – 126 Pages
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$278.00Vol.7 – Ultimate Advanced Blues Ideas
In this book we present a detailed and advanced approach to the Blues. This book is mostly for intermediate and advanced players. These ideas were carefully chosen by George Benson and Peter to change your perception, comprehension and playing forever.
• 126 “1st Story Options” with TABs, Fingering & Picking;
• 112 “2nd Story Options” with TABs, Fingering & Picking;
• 98 “3rd Story Options” with TABs, Fingering & Picking;
• 20 preset Fast Major Blues Choruses with analysis, TABs, Fingering & Picking.
• 20 preset Medium Major Blues Choruses with analyzes, TABs, Fingering & Picking.
• 20 preset Slow Major Blues Choruses with analysis, TABs, Fingering & Picking.Every chorus will teach you something special and new in terms of single lines, picking & fingering, rhythm, rhythmic positioning and of course substitutions.
Includes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 7 – 208 Pages
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$278.00Vol.8 – Bebop Minor Blues Universe
In this book we present a detailed and advanced approach to the Minor Blues. This book is mostly for intermediate and advanced players. These ideas were carefully chosen by George Benson and Peter to change your perception, comprehension and playing forever.
• 126 “1st Story Options” with TABs, Fingering & Picking;
• 98 “2nd Story Options” with TABs, Fingering & Picking;
• 98 “3rd Story Options” with TABs, Fingering & Picking;
• 20 preset Fast Minor Blues Choruses with analysis, TABs, Fingering & Picking.
• 20 preset Medium Minor Blues Choruses with analyzes, TABs, Fingering & Picking.
• 20 preset Slow Minor Blues Choruses with analysis, TABs, Fingering & Picking.Every chorus will teach you something special and new in terms of single lines, picking & fingering, rhythm, rhythmic positioning and of course substitutions.
Includes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 8 – 212 Pages
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$278.00Vol.9 – Leading Dominants – A Journey to Master the V7, I Cadence (PART ONE)
In this book we present a detailed approach to the V7, I cadence where we show you how to build single line ideas using connections between the Melodic Minor and Harmonic Minor scales in a very creative and didactic way.
• 146 single line ideas using the Melodic Minor scale (Altered scale over the V7 leading to Im)
• 146 single line ideas using the Harmonic Minor scale (Major Phrygian scale over the V7 leading to Im)
• 784 permutation between the Melodic Minor & Harmonic Minor scale (Altered + Major Phrygian over the V7 leading to Im)
• 56 extra permutations between Melodic Minor and Hybrid Major 7th ideas
• 56 extra permutations between Harmonic Minor and Hybrid Major 7th ideas
• Applications over the songs: Major Blue Form, Minor Blues From, Summertime, Breezin’, On BroadwayIncludes: Tabs, Fretboards, Fingering & Picking.
Vol 9 – 358 Pages
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$278.00Tool Book Vol.11 – Connections – The Pillar of Improvisational Fluency
In the previous George Benson Method Volumes, we have proposed you to master some small single line ideas (one bar) for each melodic group and also some big single line ideas (four bars) combining all these colors also known as the Giant Lines. However, we also must study bigger connections between lines derived from the same melodic group to better help us mastering the guitar fretboard properly. The main idea from this book is to show you how to organize, study and learn how to master these connections using the tools we have learned previously.
• 50 guide lines
• 200 combinations—
Vol 9 – 279 Pages
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